

My Kanji textbook mentions 田 to have the kunyomi た and the onyomi デン. デン is
not mentioned in brackets so I conclude it is a very common reading.

But I hardly find any words that use デン. In an example in the book is a word
田水 written and it says its read でんすい, but there is no translation. I cannot
find a translation of that word anywhere, but if I google the word I get たみず
with explanation 田の水. Water on a rice field? That doesn't seem a common word
at all! Can someone clarify this word and perhaps give examples of words where
田 is read als デン?

Thank you.


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When is the onyomi of 田 used?


There are a few 田 words which use the デン reading. Each of them is a kind of
field or plantation. **水田 is すいでん (paddy field)** (でんすい sounds like a typo),
油田 is ゆでん (oil field) and 桑田 is そうでん (mulberry field). The 水 in 水田 is present
because it's a water-filled (irrigated) paddy field.

Source - Both Google and Obenkyo (android app)


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塩田{えんでん} - [Google Image
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